Baby Queen is a 'Wannabe' with her brand new single
It's sort of tounge-in-cheek, because she's not actually a wannabe at all. See? Yeah. Got it.
Top alt-popster Baby Queen has shared a brand new track, 'Wannabe'.
The first new material from Bella Lathum since the release of her debut mixtape 'The Yearbook' earlier this year, she explains: “It’s a song I wrote about the way other people have perceived me throughout my life. I feel like I’ve always had something to prove to other people and I’ve always been trying to fit into an ideal of who I should be and how I should behave. That changed when I became Baby Queen. I found a place I belonged and people who fully accepted me for who I am.
"By the standards of the people I grew up with, or used to try so hard be friends with, I might be weird or crazy or “the girl who kisses other girls” or a total wannabe, but by the standards of my people, I am great just the way I am. The song is an invitation to accept yourself and embrace the labels that are given to you by small minded, boring people. If this is what it means to be a loser, then I hope I’ll be a loser for the rest of my life.”
The news comes alongside a new batch of live dates for 2022, which include a London show at Camden's Electric Ballroom. Tickets go on sale via fan pre-order today, with a general sale starting on Friday, 12th November.
The dates read:
APRIL
19 Brighton Patterns
20 Manchester Deaf Institute
21 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
23 Glasgow King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
24 Newcastle The Cluny
27 London Electric Ballroom
The first new material from Bella Lathum since the release of her debut mixtape 'The Yearbook' earlier this year, she explains: “It’s a song I wrote about the way other people have perceived me throughout my life. I feel like I’ve always had something to prove to other people and I’ve always been trying to fit into an ideal of who I should be and how I should behave. That changed when I became Baby Queen. I found a place I belonged and people who fully accepted me for who I am.
"By the standards of the people I grew up with, or used to try so hard be friends with, I might be weird or crazy or “the girl who kisses other girls” or a total wannabe, but by the standards of my people, I am great just the way I am. The song is an invitation to accept yourself and embrace the labels that are given to you by small minded, boring people. If this is what it means to be a loser, then I hope I’ll be a loser for the rest of my life.”
The news comes alongside a new batch of live dates for 2022, which include a London show at Camden's Electric Ballroom. Tickets go on sale via fan pre-order today, with a general sale starting on Friday, 12th November.
The dates read:
APRIL
19 Brighton Patterns
20 Manchester Deaf Institute
21 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
23 Glasgow King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
24 Newcastle The Cluny
27 London Electric Ballroom